On the day of the 79th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War, the Russian media wrote that the inhabitants of Ukraine are very actively interested in the day of victory on the Internet. We checked how correct these publications are.
It was reported that, despite the transfer and renaming of the Victory Feast of Nazism on May 8, the search query “Victory Day” (in some sources - “Happy Victory Day”) took first place in Google Trends in Ukraine. The statement is accompanied by evidence - a screenshot from the service page. "Shah and mat, Ukrainian junta!" -commented on the news in the Telegram channel "Ukraine.ru"(127,000 views at the time of writing this analysis).
From the Russian media wrote about this "Gazeta.ru","Russian spring","Biyan worker","Version" And "Inosmi". The news was widely used in Telegram thanks to the channels "Operation Z: Warrixes of Russian Spring"(427,000 views),"RT in Russian"(148 000),"Ukraine.ru"(127 000),"Tsargrad-TV"(46,000).
Since 2015, two official holidays related to the events of 1941-1945 have been celebrated in Ukraine: the day of memory and reconciliation (May 8) and Victory Day over Nazism in World War II (May 9). In June 2023, President Vladimir Zelensky signed lawaccording to which on May 8 it became the day of memory and victory over Nazism in the Second World War of 1939-1945 (on the same day pass and in many EU countries). And on May 9, in Ukraine, as in the European Union states, from now on It is noted Europe Day, dedicated to the anniversary of the publication Shumanov Declaration - In it in 1950, the French Foreign Minister Robert Shuman proposed to establish European coal association and steel, which was subsequently transformed into the EU. However, many Russian media wrote about the abolition of the celebration of Victory Day in Ukraine in any form, and not about transfer.
In Russia, a reaction to legislative change among neighbors was ambiguous: in the Council of Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation, They called it the next stage in the degradation of power in Ukraine, and in the State Duma was expressed Hopethat local residents will be able to decide for themselves when they celebrate the holiday, referring primarily to veterans. In Ukraine itself, opinions vary: judging by street surveys conducted by journalists, many support the transfer, and some call this issue unprincipled. Chairman of the Council of the Kyiv organization of veterans, disabled people and young prisoners of fascism 89-year-old Georgy Sinyuk He assured correspondent Deutsche Welle that the veteran community will celebrate both days.
Service Google Trends Allows you to evaluate the frequency of search queries for certain phrases on the specified dates, in the specified region and the necessary category, as well as identify the main search trends over the past day and the last week. The list of the most popular queries for May 9, 2024 in Ukraine requests “Happy Victory Day” and “Victory Day” really occupy The first and third places, respectively.
The viral screenshots, however, indicate other indicators: more than 2000 or more than 1000 requests, respectively. The difference can be explained by the fact that the media and Telegram channels began to publish news in the morning of May 9, and therefore they contained incomplete information.
Google Trends also allow you to find out in which regions of Ukraine in international recognized borders the request “Happy Victory Day” had the most relative popularity. The first five places in this indicator are occupied by Sevastopol, Crimea, Lugansk, Donetsk and Kherson regions, seventh place - Zaporizhzhya region.
At the same time state At the beginning of May, Crimea, Sevastopol, almost the entire Lugansk region, significant parts of the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions of Ukraine were under the control of the troops of the Russian Federation.
Unevenness is also visible to the distribution of relative popularity of requests on settlements.
A similar situation is observed with a request "Victory Day". If we compare its relative popularity with the same indicator for the request of the “KIIV” on May 9, we can see that in the vast majority of the Ukrainian regions controlled by the government of the country, the name of the capital goes ahead with a margin.
Thus, statistics in viral publications were not filed entirely correctly - for example, it did not take into account that the requests related to Victory Day were popular primarily in the Ukrainian regions occupied by the Russian army.
According to polls The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, the popularity of Victory Day in Ukraine has been declining since 2010. Researchers regularly conduct a survey, in which they ask respondents from different regions of the country to name the five most important and beloved of ten state holidays (including, for example, New Year, Christmas, Easter and Independence Day). In 2010, Victory Day was included in this five, 58% of respondents included, in 2013–2021 - from 30% to 40%, in 2024 - only 11%.
In all likelihood, this is due not only to the full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, but also with the fact that the celebration of Victory Day has been actively privatizing and subsequently applies the Kremlin in its policy. How Mark numerous Historians, in modern Russia on May 9, in particular, the memory of the Second World War as a whole is used to build a new post -Soviet identity and ideological legitimation of the regime.
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Read on the topic:
- Is it true that on May 9, projections with inscriptions about the victory of Russia appeared on the White House, the Reichstag and the UN headquarters?
- Is it true that on May 8, 2023, a red banner of victory was again hoisted over the Reichstag in Berlin in Berlin?
- Did Ukraine take the support of veterans of the Great Patriotic War?
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